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WWII movie stars

With the advent of World War II many of the actors went to fight. They gave up their wealth, position and fame to become service men & women, many as simple 'enlisted men'.       This page lists but a few, but from this group of only 18 men came over 70 medals in honour of their valour, spanning from Bronze Stars, Silver Stars, Distinguished Service Cross, Purple Hearts and one Congressional Medal of Honour.     So while the 'Entertainers of 21st Century' have been in the news media lately, for all the wrong reasons;  I would like to remind you of what the entertainers of 1943 were doing, (70+ years ago). Most of these brave men have since passed on.    'Real Hollywood Heroes'   Alec Guinness (Star Wars) operated a British Royal Navy landing craft on D-Day.   James Doohan ('Scotty' on Star Trek) landed in Normandy with the U.S. Army on D-Day.   Donald Pleasance (The Great Escape) really was an R.A.F. pilo...

Celebrity pictures - history

  Helen Keller Meeting Charlie Chaplin   Very Young Lucy Lucille Ball around 1930   Phoebe Mozee (aka: Annie Oakley).  Famed for her marksmanship by 12 years old, she once shot the ashes off of Kaiser Wihelm II's cigarette at his invitation. When she out shot famed exhibition marksman Frank Butler, he fell in love with her and they married. They remained married the rest of their lives     Bea Arthur (née Bernice Frankel) (1922-2009) SSgt. USMC 1943-45 WW II. Enlisted and assigned as typist at Marine HQ in Wash. DC, then air stations in VA and NC.  Best remembered for her title role in the TV series Maude and as Dorothy in "Golden Girls".   Billie Holiday at two years old, in 1917.   Mae Questel ca. 1930s, the voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl, Minnie Mouse, Felix the Cat (for three shorts by the Van Beuren Studios), Little Lulu, Little Audrey and Casper, the Friendly Ghost.